Isabella L. Bird

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains

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Produktbeschreibung

The further American adventures of the indefatigable Isabella Bird.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781108003834
• ISBN-10: 1108003834
• Artikelnr.: 26872800

Autorenporträt

Isabella Bird (1831-1904) was a British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. She began traveling at the age of twenty-three-first to America, then eventually, to Australia, Hawaii, and Colorado. In her later travels she journeyed to Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Morocco, India, Persia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Turkey, and Iran. Featured in journals and magazines for decades, Bird was, by 1890, a household name. She was the first woman to be awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the first woman elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Prefatory note
1. Lake Tahoe
2. A lady's 'get-up'
3. A temple of Morpheus
4. A plague of flies
5. A dateless day
6. A bronco mare
7. Personality of Long's Peak
8. Estes Park
9. 'Please ma'ams'
10. A white world
11. Tarryall Creek
12. Deer Valley
13. The blight of mining
14. A dismal ride
15. A whisky slave
16. A harmonious home
17. Woman's mission.